NYPD Does 1968 Anti-War Remix
In a haunting repeat of the Columbia University protests of 1968, hundreds of NYPD moved into Columbia University and cleared out the anti-war protesters from the exact same building. The photo shows New York police standing outside a door at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall where students protested exactly 56 years ago to the day.
Last night, the NYPD surrounded Hamilton Hall and staged a SWAT-style operation to remove students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The United States war machine is supplying weapons to keep Israel’s IDF supplied with various inhuman methods of destroying Palestinians.
In my previous post, we talked about the Billionaires de-funding US campuses:
US President Joe Biden just signed legislation authorizing $26 billion in funding for Israel, of which $4 billion will pay to replenish Israel’s ground-to-missile defence systems, and another $10.5 billion will replenish the munitions and pay for new weapons. This means it will go to the military-industrial complex to keep the war machine running smoothly.
Columbia president Minouche Shafik requested in a letter, that the NYPD clear the building and the encampment. The students barricaded themselves inside, an act of civil disobedience. Shafik also requested the NYPD remain on campus until the end of the school year, May 17.
Minouche Shafik is a World Economic Forum contributor with a resume a mile long:
She wrote an article in 2018 that the WEF described: “A leading economist has a plan to heal our fractured societies.” And in 2019, the WEF interviewed her for some useless advice on “how to create a fairer society.”
A crew of 21 war machine promoters (Congressmen) representing both Democrats and Republicans sent a letter of intimidation to Columbia University, claiming, “For the past week, this encampment has been the breeding ground for antisemitic attacks on Jewish students, including hate speech, harassment, intimidation, and even threats of violence.”
On April 23 of 1968, protesters on campus were provoked by the construction of a segregated gymnasium at Morningside Park. This was in conjunction with Anti-Vietnam War protests that further exacerbated the civil unrest. Martin Luther King had just been assassinated three weeks prior, on April 4. The protesters occupied Hamilton Hall for a week, and on April 30, the NYPD violently squashed the demonstrations with tear gas, and then stormed Hamilton Hall.
CALIFORNIA: In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Pro-Israel protesters at UCLA moved in and attacked Pro-Palestine protesters. The group carried out assaults using fireworks and pepper spray on demonstrators at the Gaza war protest encampment.
Rewind to 1970: The protests at American Universities escalated over the next two years until the fateful day on May 4, 1970, when four students were shot dead by the National Guard at Kent State University in Ohio. 300 students had gathered to protest the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia which President Richard Nixon had announced in an April 30th television address.
It was said by Mark Twain, that history does not repeat, but it rhymes. The reason this happens is because people do not learn the lessons the first time, so they are doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes.
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